Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

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On 22/08/2013 16:59, Dave Cross wrote:

> Without seeing your data (or knowing anything much about Ruby's
> string-handling) I'd guess that your file is in one of the extended
> ASCII character sets (probably ISO-8859-1 or cp1252). You haven't told
> Perl to decode the data in any way, so it's just treating it as a stream
> of bytes. Perhaps Ruby defaults to assuming the input is utf8 and tries
> to decode it as such. And then barfs when one of the characters is in
> the range 128-255 - which is invalid for utf8.
>
> All a guess though.
>
> Dave...
>

Great. That makes sense. The character set is  ISO-8859-1 but I can't 
locate the problematic char.

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